Affiliation:
1. Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
Abstract
ABSTRACT
In budding yeast, new sites of polarity are chosen with each cell cycle and polarization is transient. In filamentous fungi, sites of polarity persist for extended periods of growth and new polarity sites can be established while existing sites are maintained. How the polarity establishment machinery functions in these distinct growth forms found in fungi is still not well understood. We have examined the function of Axl2, a transmembrane bud site selection protein discovered in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
, in the filamentous fungus
Ashbya gossypii
.
A. gossypii
does not divide by budding and instead exhibits persistent highly polarized growth, and multiple axes of polarity coexist in one cell.
A. gossypii
axl2
Δ
(Ag
axl2
Δ
) cells have wavy hyphae, bulbous tips, and a high frequency of branch initiations that fail to elongate, indicative of a polarity maintenance defect. Mutant colonies also have significantly lower radial growth and hyphal tip elongation speeds than wild-type colonies, and Ag
axl2
Δ
hyphae have depolarized actin patches. Consistent with a function in polarity, AgAxl2 localizes to hyphal tips, branches, and septin rings. Unlike
S. cerevisiae
Axl2, AgAxl2 contains a Mid2 homology domain and may function to sense or respond to environmental stress. In support of this idea, hyphae lacking AgAxl2 also display hypersensitivity to heat, osmotic, and cell wall stresses. Axl2 serves to integrate polarity establishment, polarity maintenance, and environmental stress response for optimal polarized growth in
A. gossypii.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,General Medicine,Microbiology
Cited by
10 articles.
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